diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 590629bf146b..6bb69c3a70ac 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -7164,10 +7164,6 @@ I tried to turn the handle, But ...
 "I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck."
 		-- Graffito in Los Angeles
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-"I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards.  I got a full
-house and four people died."
-		-- Steven Wright
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 "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six.  Mother took me to
 see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
 		-- Shirley Temple